A Study on the Method for Linking Parts of Speech and Sentence Components in School Grammar

In Korean, the grammatical characteristics of words are closely related to the functions of sentence components. However, elementary, middle, and high school students who study school grammar often do not understand the correlation between parts of speech and sentence components. Learners not only fail to understand the difference between parts of speech and sentence components, but also confuse the names of parts of speech with the names of sentence components. This confusion seems to arise because the ‘Korean Language Curriculum’ does not reflect educational content that links parts of speech and sentence components. In this article, we aim to develop a method to link the educational content of parts of speech and sentence components in school grammar. To this end, first, we review previous studies related to the criteria for classifying parts of speech and sentence components, confirming that parts of speech are categories of words and sentence components are the functions that words perform in relation to other words within a sentence. Second, we review the educational content set in the ‘Korean Language Curriculum’ and the textbook 『Language and Media』(2019). Through this review process, we seek ways to link the education of parts of speech and sentence components in school grammar.